Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scared. He shoved it in my stomach. I-he fired it and hit my arm-how he looked-I was scared. I ran-started to run for the door but he blocked my way-I couldn't get to the door. I ran to the corner window to call the neighbor lady-he shot me again -in the stomach. I fell on the floor. He knocked me down-he hit me-I don't know what, in the back of the neck. He was standing there with the end of the gun on the floor-I crawled over...
Down the hill and around the corner from Pigalle, however, is the Place Vendome. Rififi, a superb little French gangster film, proves that the Place Vendome really isn't much different from Madison Avenue. It's just as hard to rob a jewelry store at the Place Vendome as it is on Madison Avenue, and you have to wear a clean white shirt and pressed trousers to do it. And you get caught, too, for all your trouble...
...celebrations ended abruptly in Israel, and released reservists were called back. Army units worked full speed to get battle-worn tanks, guns and other equipment back into shape. At week's end Foreign Minister Golda Meir told a party meeting that the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian-held corner of the old Palestine mandate overrun in the Sinai blitz, "is an integral part of Israel...
...that are in effect confessions, go in for cruelties that are spewings of self-hate. Endlessly they go on saying the same things, while yet blurting out things not meant to be said at all; over and over they assume the same perverse or posturing roles, while betraying some corner of their actual selves...
Summed up a government securities expert : "It's the first time in years that anything like this has happened here. I've read in books about markets being cornered, but I've never seen it. This is the classic situation. This is a corner and the short sellers have been caught...